About this site
This site presents sixty vinyl-replay system slots — five quality tiers crossed with six listening philosophies and six fixed mandates, each resolved forward (source-first) and aft (speaker-first).
Provenance
Every pick was derived by the frozen 13-July oracle-validated engine: a Swift rewrite of the original selection campaign, proved parity-exact against the frozen oracles (120/120 directional chains, 18,061 pooled beliefs and 3,872 node scores, strict zero-diff on values) before any page here was built. The site is entirely static: the engine runs offline, its results are validated against the authored projections schema, and the pages are prerendered from that output in one build sequence. No pick is ever computed in the browser.
Album artwork appears at thumbnail scale for identification; rights remain with the artwork owners.
The ER-alternative panels
23 of the 120 directional chains give the speaker slot to a bespoke Wilmslow ER build that cannot be bought off the shelf. Those chains carry a panel showing the engine's pick with the ER set aside — a strong off-the-shelf option, not a precise runner-up, since only a minority of slots are fully stable under exclusion.
Privacy
This site publishes projections, never facts: component display data and derived chain results only. Private data is never published — no listening judgements, no collection data, no occasion or environment records, and no third-party review text.